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W. H. WIGKERS. CARD DISPLAY CABINET.

No. 604,221. Patented May 17,1898.

2 v IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIgL/LQ Nrrnn STATES IVILLIAM H. VVIOKERS, OFINDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CARD-DISPLAY CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,221, dated May 17,1898.

Application filed September 2'7, 1897. Serial No. 653,229. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. Wrcxnns, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Card-DisplayCabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to calendars in which the days of the month areindicated on cards,

panying drawings, in which- Figure l is a View in front elevation of mycabinet, showing the front partially in section. Fig. 2 isa verticalsection on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view in vertical'section,on the line 3 3 of Fig. 4, of a modified form of my cabinet, showing aknob with rocker-bar and attachments for pushing the cards off of theirsupport. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5is a detail in perspective, showing a part of my cabinet from the rear,broken away in part to show the rocker-bar and the cards; and Fig. 6 isa view in perspective of the inner end of the rockerbar and its head andshows one of the cards in dotted lines.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews of the drawings. g

The case or cabinet, within which the calendar-cards are located,comprises the back A, sides A and A front A which covers approximatelythe upper half of the case, top A, which projects out beyond the frontand forms a shelf on which bric-a-brac and such articles as are usuallydisplayed on shelves can be placed, and A is the bottom, on which thecards will rest while exposed to view 0pposite the open front of thecabinet. This bottom A will be cut back in the middle to make the cardsaccessible from below. The sides A and A are parallel with each other,

and the side A approximately midway of its length is notched or cut backto form a shoulder a, which extends the full width of the side andsupports the cards in their elevated position.

B represents the cards, which will preferably be thirty-one in number,with numerals from l to 31 printed at their upper corners, whereby oneor the other of the dates can always be seen from any part of a room inwhich the calendar is located. The card will also have selected versesfrom the Bible or from other sources, or information or pictures whichwill form a profitable daily lesson to all who see it. It is intendedthat the matter on each card shall be different, and the thirty-onecards Will provide one for each day of the longest months. One card forevery day in the year might be provided and would only be objectionablebecause of the size of the cabinet required to contain so many cards.The month will be indicated by the revoluble disk 0, which has the namesof all of the months printed on itsmargin, all of which will be coveredexcept one, which will be exposed through a notch D, made in the loweredge of the half-front A The card will be rotated by hand till thedesired month is brought into view.

At the beginning of the month the cards, in proper order numerically,will be placed in the base of the cabinet in the manner as shown in Fig.2, and at the end of the first day the outside card will be raised byhand and its corner caught on the shoulder a. This exposes the card forthe second day, and the operation will be repeated until the last day,when the cards will be arranged again in a body and started from thebase in the original manner above described. The shoulder will slopefrom front to rear to cause the cards to work back easily out of the wayof the next card.

In order to hold the upper tier of cards firmly and to keep any of themfrom jarring off of. the shoulder when the new ones are pushed up intoplace and also to hold their tops horizontally, so they will drop downinto the base without binding, I make the inner wall of the side A fromthe notch or shoulder (1 up, at an inclination which starts with theinner line of the shoulder and ends with the normal inner surface of theside at the top. This inclined side compels the card to take the desiredposition while it is in the top part of the case.

In the modification shown in Figs. 3, 4:, 5, and 6 of the drawings thecabinet proper is the same as that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and has therock-shaft E as an additional feature. In this modified construction thecards are collected in a body at the top of the cabinet at the beginningof the month and the cards are dropped from the rear of the collection,as shown in Fig. 4. The rock-shaft E is mounted in the side wall of thecasing and has the knob e on its outer end, by which it will be rotatedor rocked. A head F, having a flange j, which presses against the rearcard, is secured to the inner end of the shaft E, and a thickenedportion 9 of the head lies against the edge of the card. By throwing thehead inwardly and upwardly by a turn of the shaft the card next to thehead will be pushed off of its support and will drop down into view bygravity. The shaft is then rocked back and pulled out till the headengages the next card, and this operation is repeated until all of thecards have been dropped. In reloading the cabinet at the end of themonth the rod is pushed in, so the head will be back of the last card.

H is a cushion on the bottom of the case to prevent damage to the endsof the cards when they drop.

This invention is specially desirable in families of children, Where thedaily lessons afforded will soon become fixed in their minds,

after which and as frequently as desired the cards can be exchanged fornew ones.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cabinet for the purposes described having approximately onehalf ofits front covered and having the inner side of one of its side walls cutaway to form a shoulder, and adapted to receive a plurality of removablecards approximately the same in width and one-half the height, insidemeasurement, as the cabinet, substantially as described and specified.

2. A cabinet having the upper half of its front covered and having oneof its sides of uniform thickness and havingits other side of normalthickness at the top but sloping outwardly and downwardly on the innerside to approximately half the normal thickness midway of the length ofthe wall where the inclined part terminates forming a shoulder, saidcabinet being adapted to receive a plurality of cards removably securedwithin the cabinet, substantially as described and specified.

' 3. A cabinet having the upper half of its front covered and having oneside cut away to form an inside shoulder, a rock-shaft adjacent to theshoulder with an outside knob and an inside flanged and notched head,substantially as described, to engage and push the cards off of theshoulder, and adapted to receive a plurality of cards, all substantiallyas described and for the purposes specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, atIndianapolis, Indiana, this 13th day of September, A. D. 1897.

WILLIAM H. XVICKERS.

